The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 54

‘This is one of my daughter’s tricks,’ he said to himself, ‘but if I had my big axe and my wood-knife, I would not be long making a way through this,’ and off he went home and brought back the axe and the wood-knife.

Who acts: This, breath, I, daughter · What happens: be, say, have, not be, make, go · To what, where: one, breath, big axe, way, this, axe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, breath, I, daughter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 one	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	cop
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 said	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 tricks	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 daughter	nmod:poss
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tricks	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 daughter	case
9	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tricks	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 axe	nmod:poss
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 axe	amod
24	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 knife	cc
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 knife	nmod:poss
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 knife	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 wood	punct
29	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 axe	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 long	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 long	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 long	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 long	advmod
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 long	cop
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	conj
36	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 long	advcl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 way	det
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 making	obj
39	through	through	ADP	_	40 this	case
40	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 making	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 went	cc
44	off	off	ADP	_	46 went	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 went	nsubj
46	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
47	home	home	ADV	_	46 went	advmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 brought	cc
49	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 went	conj
50	back	back	ADV	_	49 brought	advmod
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 axe	det
52	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 brought	obj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 knife	cc
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 knife	det
55	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 knife	compound
56	-	-	PUNCT	_	55 wood	punct
57	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 axe	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	This	one			of my daughter's tricks	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	breath		breath			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	have a condition, not said to happen	past	I	my big axe and my wood knife				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Patient
4	not is	would	I				long property	tree rules
5	make	gerund	I not said here	a way		this		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product
6	go	past	breath				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	bring back	past	breath not said here	the axe and the wood knife				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
8	trick		my daughter					nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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